Thanks, I *thought* that running Tomcat as root was a bad idea!
Rhino
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shapira, Yoav"
To: "Tomcat Users List"
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 12:42 PM
Subject: RE: Tomcat running as root?
Hi,
No, don't run Tomcat as root. Create a special user called whatever you
want with only the bare minimum permissions for running Tomcat. If
you're running with a port number under 1024, use commons-daemon to
invoke Tomcat, otherwise just run Tomcat normally with this user.
Details on commons-daemon are in the RUNNING.txt and setup.html files in
the docs.
Yoav Shapira
Millennium Research Informatics
-----Original Message-----
From: Rhino [mailto:rhino1@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 12:40 PM
To: tomcat-user
Subject: Tomcat running as root?
Our instance of Tomcat (4.1.30) is currently running as root.
Can someone remind me of whether that is the recommended way of running
Tomcat? I can't remember where that would be documented.
If root is not the right ID for Tomcat, what should I use? Can anyone
give me (or point me to) instructions for safely changing the ID for
Tomcat?
We are running Mandrake 9.1. (At least I think we are! The administrator
was talking about upgrading to Mandrake 10 but I don't know if he's done
it yet.)
Rhino
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